World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female
Found in 414 Collections and/or Records:
Martha Redding Mendenhall Collection
The collection includes an Air Navigation student workbook, December 1945; a training syllabus for Air Navigation course, December 1945; various photographs during and after Mendenhall's WAVES service, 1943-1991; a Flying Trainer handbook, May 1943; various procedure papers, undated; an oral history transcript, including audio cassette tape, 28 May 1999.
Idelle Singletary Meng Scrapbook
Scrapbook contains newspaper and newsletter clippings; including "WAC of the Week" columns; military documents and handbooks; photographs; small banner; letters; and ephemera including "WAC Songs" and her WAC application.
Marie E. Merrill Collection
photocopies of photographs; Olive Drab Jacket, circa 1942-1950.
Audrey Meyers Collection
The collection includes "My Life in the Service" diary, 1944-1945; a portrait photograph of Meyers in her Women's Army Corps uniform, circa 1944.
Mildred Jane Doyle Collection
The collection includes photographs of Doyle's service with the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), 1944; copies of military papers related to her flying experience and training, November 1942-May 1944; copies of newspaper clippings honoring WASP's, 2000 and undated; full publications of the Stars and Stripes, a national newspaper for Military Veterans, June 1977-January 1978; an oral history transcript, 2 July 2007.
Elsie Toby Miles Collection
The collection includes a Women's Army Corps (WAC) uniform, circa 1945-1962.
Bernice Moran Miller Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 13 October 1999; various personal correspondence; various photographs of Miller while serving with the Women's Army Corps, 1942-1945.
Virginia Miller Collection
The collection includes a 2001 April oral history transcript; photocopies of Army Honorable Discharge and Certificate of Service, 1943 to 1945; portrait photograph of Miller in Women's Army Corps (WAC) uniform; photograph of Miller in dress; and photograph of Miller in Olive drap winter uniform, circa 1941 to 1944.
Margarette S. Miller Scrapbook
Margarette S. Miller was the cousin of trumpeter Phyllis Widener, who played in Freddie Shaffer's Victory Sweetheart's All-Girl Band, which played for military bases and hospitals as part of the United Service Organization's camp shows during World War II. This scrapbook includes postcards, photographs, correspondence, newspapers advertisements and other memorabilia.
Jean Comins Mitchell Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 16 March 1999; papers related to Mitchell’s service with the Army Medical Corps, 1943-1945; various newspaper articles; various photographs of Mitchell at Fort Meade and Walter Reed, 1943-1944.
Mixed materials: clippings, event programs, handwritten notes, 1939-1965
Aimee Nott Moore Oral History
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 14 May 1999. Interview completed with Vera Rackley Jenkins oral history.
Margaret Catherine Moore Papers
Margaret Catherine Moore (1913-1975) was a Woman's College alumna, nurse and nurse educator after whom the UNCG School of Nursing building is named. The Margaret Catherine Moore Papers date from 1913 to 1982 and contain biographical material, diplomas and degrees, a high school annual, photographs, Moore's thesis from New York University, and World War II materials.
Jane G. Morey Oral History
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 3 November 1999.
Mary Ellen Mullan Collection
The collection includes two letter booklets written by Mullan while in basic training at Northampton, Massachusetts in September 1944.
Adelaide Murphy Collection
Nan M. Nabors Letters
This collection includes Correspondence, 1944-1946. Though the majority of correspondence is personal in nature it presents insights into many different aspects of the military, including the urgent need for infantry, the relationship between officers and enlisted soldiers, life as a soldier, and Nabors's experiences as a female serving in the military.
Mary Cugini Necko Collection
The Mary Cugini Papers consist of correspondence, photographs, military papers, Necko's poems, newspaper clippings, souvenirs, copies of the newsletters The U.S. Marine Corps Beachhead and The Marine Corps Women's Reserve The Word, a 1999 oral history recording and transcript, and textiles.
A scrapbook from her time in the Marine Corps Women's Reserve has been digitized.
Emily Newcity Oral History
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 8 September 2008.
Emma Dale Newell Love Collection
The collection includes various photographs of Newell's Women's Army Corps service, 1944; scrapbook copies; various military papers, September 1944-October 1945; an oral history transcript, 4 June 1999.
Judith Bullock Nisbet Collection
Eleanor Neeva Northcott Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 13 April 1999; a poster with the phrase "Ah...At Last!", circa 1942-1945.
Mattie Osborne Spicer Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 26 October 1999; a photograph of Spicer in Women's Army Corps uniform, circa 1944; the "Ronda" newsletter with Spicer's articles.
Edna Painter Searles Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 26 October 1999; a photograph of Searles in Marine Corps Women's Reserve uniform, circa 1944.
Ethel LeBlanc Palma Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 22 November 1999; a booklet titled "Three Years of Change," 1942-1945; various programs and invitations, 1944; various military records including Certificate of Service, 1946; a copy of WAAC Parodies, undated; 13 photographs of Palma while stationed in New Guinea and Australia, 1943-1945; several newspaper clippings featuring Palma, 1943, 1988, and undated.
Pauline G. Palmer Scrapbook and Artifacts
Correspondence, art, and scrapbook.
Irene Parsons Collection
Mary "Pat" Elizabeth Partridge Collection
The collection contains correspondence, maps, patches, photographs, newspaper clippings, programs, and official documents pertaining to Partridge's Red Cross service.
Lucille Ingram Pauquette Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 15 February 1999; portrait photograph of Pauquette in uniform, October 1945.
Eleanor K. Peck Letters
This collection consists of fifteen letters written by Peck to her family beginning a few days after her arrival in London, England, on 31 October 1941. The letters are addressed to "Poppy", which may be her father, and "Ros", which may be a nickname for her younger sister Rosamond, as well as her family. All fifteen letters describe the people and everyday life in London before she was commissioned by the Army, and discuss any news from the war and her family.
Personal Correspondence, 1945 - 1946
Ruth Kent Petker Collection
The collection includes a 1999 December oral history and a photograph of Petker in Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services (WAVES) uniform, circa 1943.
Ruth Mary Petry Collection
Thelma L. Meyer Petty Collection
Constance Cline Phillips Collection
The collection includes various Women's Army Corps publications, 1944; 2 event programs, 1945; various photographs of Phillips Women's Army Corps service with the Women's Army Corps, 1945-1946; various military papers with identification passes, 1945-1946; correspondence with her parents and friends, February-April 1945, January-August 1946; an oral history transcript, 24 May 1999.
Geraldine Muse Phillips Collection
Geraldine Muse Phillips (b. 1927), of Birmingham, Alabama, and North Carolina served in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) from February 1949 until 1950.
The collection includes a 1999 December oral history and a photograph of Phillips in Women's Army Corps (WAC) uniform at school in Fort Lee, Virginia, circa 1949.
Photographs, circa 1942-1946
This collection consists primarily of military and miscellaneous documents from 1942-1946; there are also twenty-one photos of Trembath, her nursing colleagues, hospital buildings, and waterfalls. There is one handwritten, unsigned letter from the Western Marine Railway company, asking for a travel refund.
Maxine Newcom Pierce Collection
Marie Louise Pihlblad Collection
Lillian M. Pimlott Collection
Helen Bolling Potts Collection
Collection consists of a 2003 oral history transcript; correspondence; photographs; postcards; newspaper clipping; custom made uniform (skirt and jacket); shirt; boots; and a 29th Rangers shoulder patch.
Annie Pozyck Collection
Emily Harris Preyer Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 19 April 1999; 2 photographs of Preyer; a copy of newspaper article, 12 January 1989; a desk nameplate; a khaki overcoat.
Jane Pritchard Collection
The contents of this collection contains three letters from 1945 from Pritchard's friend Private First Class Susan Peters, who was stationed in Florence, Italy as a member of the Women's Army Corps (WAC). These letters describe the places around the world that Peters travelled to, and her fellow WACs. There is also one photograph of an unnamed woman - presumably Jane Pritchard - in a naval uniform.
Daisy Chamness Proctor Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 7 January 2000; watercolor portrait photograph of Proctor in American Red Cross uniform, undated.
Estelle Garner Ptaszynski Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 5 February 1999; various photographs of Ptaszynski’s Army Nurse Corps service as a surgical nurse, 1943-1944.
Lucy Phillips Pugh Collection
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 6 May 1999; various photographs of Pugh’s Coast Guard SPARS service and at SPAR’s reunions, 1944-1990; 2 postcards of SPAR Training Center, Palm Beach, undated; an article from the Reservist magazine, November 1997; "The Coast Guard & The Women's Reserve in World War II," booklet, 1992.